WASCOM 2011 - Brindisi (Italy), 12 - 18 June 2011

The Conference

The XVI edition of the International Conference on Waves and Stability in Continuous Media will be held in Brindisi (Italy), from June 12th (arrival day) to June 18th, 2011 (departure day). Wascom Flier.

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Main Topics of the Conference

Discontinuity and shock waves;
Linear and nonlinear stability in fluid dynamics and solid mechanics;
Small parameter problems;
Kinetic theories and comparison with continuum models;
Wave propagation and non equilibrium thermodynamics;
Group analysis and reduction techniques;
Numerical and technical applications.

Aim of the Conference

Since its first edition organized in 1981, this meeting aimed at gathering Italian and foreign researchers interested in stability and wave propagation problems in continuous media.

The meeting will encompass different fields concerning wave propagation, stability problems and modeling problems such as acceleration and shock waves, diffusion processes in biology and in continuum mechanics, kinetics models, irreversible thermodynamics, stochastic processes, group methods, numerical techniques.

The previous conferences were organized in Catania (1981), Cosenza (1983), Bari (1985), Taormina (1987), Sorrento (1989), Acireale (1991), Bologna (1993), Palermo (1995), Bari (1997), Vulcano (1999), Porto Ercole (2001), Villasimius (2003), Acireale (2005), Scicli (2007), Mondello (2009)

General Information

The Conference will last 5 days, from Monday, 13 June 2011 at 9.00 to Friday, 17 June 2011 at 19.00. The arrival day is Sunday, 12 June 2011, and the departure day is Saturday, 18 June 2011. Registration will start on Monday 13 June 2011 at 08.30 in the conference room of the Museo Archeologico Provinciale Francesco Ribezzo. The announced 100€ registration fee will be waived. There is no conference fee for Wascom 2011.

There will be 45 minutes invited talks and 30 minutes contributed talks. Scientists who are willing to participate to the conference are invited to submit an abstract of not more than one page on topics within conference theme. The preferred format for abstract submission is plain text or LaTeX. Abstracts will be refereed by the Scientific Committee. Conference Proceedings will be published, as is usual for the conference series. Overhead projectors, computers and data/video projectors will be available in the session rooms.